Based on a best-selling book series, Bent is a fairy stereotypical noir crime thriller. After getting out of prison former police detective Daniel Gallagher looks into a murder that his partner was investigating before he was killed, and comes to believe that it could be connected to the crime boss that set him up. Starring Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara, and Andy Garcia, the film has a pretty solid cast; though Vergara seems a bit out of her element. The plot is a little convoluted, or at least the murder mystery is, and is kind of hard to follow at times. Still, there’s a good amount of intrigue and a few interesting plot twists. Bent is entertaining and delivers some thrills, but ends up being a rather mediocre action film.
enough good movie could be better :) you can watch it you don't loose your time correct police movie
Really good movie and interesting
Finally something where you can't shut off your brain.
With this and Hangman, Urban needs to get himself a new agent. Both are terrible, but this is arguably the worst of the two. Let's hope he doesn't go down the Nic Cage/Bruce Willis/John Cusack route of making further bad films for a quick buck.
Review by Jacob PaintBlockedParent2023-12-01T13:04:29Z
Uninspiring cop film that seems like they hoped it would be more. Apparently it’s based on a series of books but the film does nothing to recommend reading the books.
Having seen The Boys and growing to like Urban in that, my opinion of him might be more generous now than it would have been before the boys. In saying that, I didn't mind him in this. He wasn't amazing but there wasn't a lot to work with beyond his scenes with Garcia. Garcia being the stand out here as he clearly wasn't ready to phone in his performance for this low-budget cop film. The cast was the primary draw for me to watch this film but Vergara should probably stick to comedy (she’s probably happy to do that). Special mention goes to Trai Byers as Chuck whose performance I enjoyed more than most of the support cast.
In terms of the story, there is nothing you haven't seen before so I could detail the twists and it wouldn't be a big spoiler. At least some of the reveals made sense due to having been set up earlier in the film rather than the characters just magically figuring everything out and the viewer having no sense of their being a mystery to solve. I just wasn't invested in the characters enough to bother trying to solve it.